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It's funny, my girlfriend and I were actually in Goleta a mile from where it all went down while waiting to see a movie. I feel bad because i know people who were close with one or two of the departed, but everyone I know is safe. What creeps me out is that that nutjob used to shop at my store all the time.

Originally Posted by TallGuyCM

ICYMI: Today the two board members with the most questionable approach to music held mirrors up to each other; no one learned a thing and nothing will change.

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yeah. all my cashiers do as well. he was a known asshole, and was pretty rude. he had a foot cast thing on a few months back and when one of my cashiers asked what happened he said "that's my business, not yours." I rang him up quite a few times and it was the same shit. just your typical grocery store asshole.

Originally Posted by TallGuyCM

ICYMI: Today the two board members with the most questionable approach to music held mirrors up to each other; no one learned a thing and nothing will change.

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The St. Louis Archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal testified last month that he didn’t know in the 1980s whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children, according to a court deposition released Monday.

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Its not confusing, its disgusting. The kids that have been abused (in most cases) grow up with the trauma and usually have not gotten help or proper care in terms of coping and dealing with the issues that were forced upon them.

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Originally Posted by nyarlathotoats

Its not confusing, its disgusting. The kids that have been abused (in most cases) grow up with the trauma and usually have not gotten help or proper care in terms of coping and dealing with the issues that were forced upon them.

I know. I find it completely and utterly disgusting. I personally believe these men should be strung up and beaten to death.

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(CNN) -- If the old saw about houseguests being like fish is true -- after a few days they begin to stink -- imagine what it must smell like in poor Cory Tschogl's 600-square-foot condo in Palm Springs, California.
Tschogl entered into an agreement through the popular Internet site Airbnb to host a man and his brother for a 44-day period from May 25 through July 8. (Airbnb connects travelers looking for low-cost accommodations with locals who in turn rent them rooms in their homes.)
The man, identified in various reports as Maksym Pashanin and whose Airbnb "verified ID" says he's from Austin, Texas, paid for the first 30 days in advance.
He and his brother moved in, but after 30 days they refused to pay out the balance of their account.
What's more, upon the July end of their rental agreement, they simply refused to leave the condo.

Squatters protected under California law
So, if unwanted strangers won't leave, just call authorities and have them booted out, right?
That's where Tschogl's nightmare really begins.
In California, renters who occupy a property for more than 30 consecutive days are considered full-time tenants on a month-to-month lease with rights to occupancy protected under the state's tenant law.

To persuade Pashanin and his brother to leave once the Airbnb reservation contract had expired, Tschogl informed him that she intended to cut off the condo's electricity.
"The guest texted back saying he was legally occupying the condo and that loss of electricity would threaten the work he does at home that brings in $1,000 to $7,000 a day," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Pashanin reportedly works as a video game developer. Tschogl says her electricity bills have tripled or even quadrupled since the men moved in.
"The texts threatened to press charges for 'blackmail and damages caused by your negligence and malicious misconduct, including $3,800 PID Espresso machine as well as medical bills for my brother's hospital visit after he got sick here drinking unfiltered tap water,'" reported the Chronicle.
Time to lawyer up
Realizing her legal options were limited, Tschogl contacted Airbnb for help.
According to a Chronicle story on July 19, Tschogl said her numerous email and telephone appeals to Airbnb met with no success.
"I have professional scammers squatting in my condo," an exasperated Tschogl tweeted, while also creating a hashtag #airbnbsquatterswontleave.
Tschogl eventually hired a lawyer and the bizarre story has since gained national attention.
As well as Airbnb's.
According to a July 22 story in USA Today, an Airbnb spokesman says the company now plans to pay Tschogl "the full cost of the reservation and is working with her to provide additional legal support."
Whoever pays, those legal fees may be costly.
Eviction procedures in California can be lengthy and complicated, often taking three to six months to evict a tenant.

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There was a similar problem in my city with a guy that moved into an old lady's house in exchange for doing renovations on the place, and then he claimed that he was part of a Freedom on the Land movement and that the house was his own state or country or something. It took a while to legally get him removed and he left the place in a shambles. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Mo...966/story.html

Originally Posted by M Sparks

It's all riding on this. You've got big dreams to ride to the top of the Flash Mob world. Well internet fame costs. And right now is when you start paying for it...in sweat.

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There used to be this scam where scamsters would rent your house, draw up fake title papers, get them notarized, take a note out on your property and vanish into thin air.

There is however a long standing law called "Adverse Possesion."
It was born out of the fuedal system in England becuse Lords and such shit weren't taking care of thier own land. The law in California guarantees that if a person has been living on a property AND paying property taxes for at least five years then that person somehow becomes the legal owner of that property. I don't understand the whole thing but its something like that. Needless to say that there aren't many cases like this.

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Adverse possession is tough to accomplish because there are five things you need to establish:

1. That you are possessing (and most states say improving) property that is not yours.
2. That the owner could easily become aware of you being in possession of their property.
3. You have to continuously possess the property for five years.
4. You have to be the only person to actually possess the property during that whole period of time.
5. Your possession has to be against the interest of the property holder.

California, and lots of other states, have rules for real property (land and buildings) requiring tax payment as well, but you can adversely possess anything as long as you satisfy those requirements. People have successfully done it with art.